Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 39e8f11f39f4d367…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.5 KB Created: 2020-08-28 15:17:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8960999c2aa97ec93ae3f9d5d00e0cc2 SHA-1: b8434c12f28d30695c48f4add7035788dd6a1fcc SHA-256: 39e8f11f39f4d3677e4103cb6598d0bdefffa6847c6b780f6ee3b4d1b5ef757e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, a technique often used for SEO poisoning or to redirect users to malicious content. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector (ttraff.com), which likely leads to the download of further malware. Another heuristic flagged the PDF as a link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=trans+siberian+orchestra+letters+fro In PDF document text
    • http://files.melanieparkerphotography.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815367/9886208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dejanus.torontopilipinosdachurch.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739090/jasagipuxekiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.redmoonbronxsoapsandteas.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379060/fezivekagexin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jamesbrothersstudio.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813095/pisomijogosoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1311/8872/files/kikexixuxuwado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5459/5224/files/fowesiwidazaravawulobem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4790/1592/files/dopijerosawovarojasidiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2754/5757/files/67511101052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0750/0711/files/criminal_minds_season_13_episodes_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9050/9975/files/tinokonusadumudedugepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8187/3048/files/subject_verb_agreement_collective_nouns_worksheet_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4817/2710/files/recipe_for_disaster_osrs_runehq.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5409/4753/files/libro_de_administracion_financiera_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000073d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73D7 4848 bytes
SHA-256: 01a24415ec27def22433cf0bce2caf573d6ffc88fc1ff2104a8407180a2aca60
font_01_sfnt_off00008432.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8432 10000 bytes
SHA-256: ac02b4223884d0d188bb1dcf0d1819b8d43c7f4541d088065f13080c71bec247
font_02_sfnt_off0000a673.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA673 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34

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